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  • Vaibhav Piplapure, widely known as VP, has signed on for a second stint in KKR’s credit business, returning to the firm as a London-based managing director sourcing asset-based finance and speciality lending opportunities.
  • Asian sponsor-backed firms are following their Western peers in tapping the loan market for dividend recapitalisations, encouraged by a buoyant stock price and low debt levels. Rashmi Kumar reports.
  • The fact that a large US insurance company could offer the English Football League better lending terms than UK banks or other investors is revealing. UK lenders are shying away from deals, which has opened the doors to institutional investors. The speed with which a tailor-made EFL deal was done shows how quickly they can replace traditional creditors.
  • US institutional investor MetLife has offered a more attractive loan package to the English Football League — England's second, third and fourth professional football divisions — than the UK government and bank lenders.
  • Leads have tightened pricing and increased the size of Casino’s maturity-pushing loan and bond refi, with investors keen to buy the company’s turnaround story and looking past the troubles of holding company Rallye, which needs to find a big slug of cash to pay bondholders in 2023.
  • Mizuho has hired Robert Lepone as head of loan trading EMEA, a newly created job intended to expand the Japanese bank’s loan distribution capabilities.